Get off it! It’s NOT all about slavery! Soldiers getting enfiladed through from Little Round Top is NOT about slavery! There is no slave story here! (The Gettysburg VC is all-new, huge, and slathered in slavery homages.)
Really, get off it!
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Well and truly said. The destructive and pervasive historical revisionism that’s happening in this country is a crime against humanity. There is however and encouraging truth: Such revisionism is rarely able to completely and permanently suppress historical truth.
They need their mythology to absolve Lincoln of being the principle cause of the deaths of 2 million Americans, which included 25% of the freed slaves; a million black men, women and children who were alive when the war had ended but didn't exist when the 1870 census was taken.
The aftermath of Lincoln's War killed about 3x as many freed slaves as the war itself killed White combatants who fought for the Confederacy.
How the end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans